Life at SAIT
Charissa teaches the following courses: Introduction to Business, Organizational Behaviour, Introduction to Management, Introduction to Human Resources, Training and Development and Business Practicum and has been with SAIT since 2017.
For Charissa, it’s a privilege to be a part of and contribute to her students’ overall journeys as lifelong learners, future leaders, and human beings. Charissa is a steadfast believer in people's boundless potential and feels passionate about helping them access this potential. She is a dedicated advocate of core human skills essential for the 21st-century workforce.
She is serving on the Teaching and Catalyst Group, which is working hard to create a teaching and learning excellence framework for the School of Business.
Education
Charissa has a Bachelor of Management focusing on Human Resources Management and a Master of Science in Organizational Psychology.
She is currently pursuing her Doctorate in Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) at the University of Saskatchewan and expects to complete her thesis work in 2027.
Professional accomplishments
With two of her colleagues, Charissa is the proud winner of the D2L Excellence Award in recognition of her work creating a virtual onboarding program called LaunchPad, which has made an extraordinary impact on learning outcomes. This has been one of her favourite initiatives at SAIT.
Charissa is also the winner of the 2024 Cisco Catalyst Chair Awards and is working on integrating an electronic portfolio into the current BA LaunchPad platform.
Charissa has also contributed to the induction of Insights Discovery in Business Practicum, a psychometric tool that helps students with self-discovery, collaboration tools, and leadership skills.
Another quality initiative that Charissa has worked on is the introduction of free OERs for two courses, Introduction to Business and Organizational Behavior.
Charissa is a passionate researcher who has presented on various topics, including professional identity development in post-secondary education, workplace readiness competency development and the impacts of onboarding new students. She has presented on business-specific soft skills, onboarding students and self-directed scaffolding skills at the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference, the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Conference and the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada Conference.
Research interests
- Professional identity development in postsecondary education
- Workplace readiness and competency development
- Impacts of onboarding new students (LaunchPad)
- Teaching and learning excellence
Publications and presentations
- Norman, J., Wong, T., Lee, C., & Gaden, G. (2024, Mar 5). Give'n'Take: Faculty Share their OER Stories [Panel Discussion]. SAIT Open Education Week, Calgary, Alberta.
- Coller, K., Johnston, S. L., & Lee, C. (2023, Nov 23-25). Use, implementation, and design of open educational resources in post-secondary institutions. [Round Table]. 2023 Symposium for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at the Mokakiiks Centre for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (Mount Royal University), Canmore, Canada.
- Lee, C., & Johnston, S. L. (2023, Nov 23-25). Pair - “Re-Pair” - Submit: A journey in collaborative formative assessment [Oral Presentation]. 2023 Symposium for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at the Mokakiiks Centre for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (Mount Royal University), Canmore, Canada.
- Johnston, S. L., & Lee, C. (2023, Nov 23-25). Cultivating a coaching culture through co-creation: Reframing design of diploma capstone [Oral Presentation]. 2023 Symposium for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at the Mokakiiks Centre for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (Mount Royal University), Canmore, Canada.
- Lee, C., & Coller, K. (2023, October). So, Where does AI Fit into All of This? Evaluating the Interplay Between AI, Open Pedagogy, and Competency-Based Learning [Oral Presentation], Open Education Global Conference, Edmonton, AB.
- Coller, K., & Lee, C. (2023, October). Representation Matters: A Comparative Analysis of EDI, Societal Trends and Currency of Content between Textbooks and Open Educational Resources, Open Education Global Conference, Edmonton, AB.
- Lee, C., & Johnston, C. (2023, July). Sparking Learning Engagement in Pre-Orientation through Badging (featuring LaunchPad) [Oral Presentation], D2L Fusion Conference, Anaheim, California, US.
- Dahl, B., Danby, M., Pearsall, E., & Lee, C. (2023, July). D2L Excellence Award: What it Takes to Write an Award-Worthy Proposal [Panel Discussion]. D2L Fusion Conference, Anaheim, California, US.
- Lee, C. (2023, June). A Gamified Approach to Self-Directed Pre-Orientation (featuring LaunchPad) [Oral Presentation]. Society for Teaching & Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) 41st Annual Conference, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada.
- Johnston, S. L., & Lee, C. (2023, Jun 13-16). It’s about time! Scaffolding skills in an established business degree program to better support the future of work [Conference Presentation]. Society for Teaching & Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) 41st Annual Conference, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada.
- Lee, C., & Johnston, S. L. (2023, Jun 3-6). Navigating capability scaffolding along the management foundation in a Bachelor of Business Administration program. [Conference Presentation Work in Process]. Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) 2023 Conference, Management Education, Toronto, ON, Canada.
- Johnston, S. L., & Lee, C. (2022, Jun 6-10). Scaffolding “soft” skills from entry to graduation across programs for undergraduates in business [Conference presentation #105]. Society for Teaching and Learning 40th Annual Conference (STLHE), Ottawa, ON, Canada.
- Lee, C. (2021, October). Onboarding: A LaunchPad for Students and their Careers, International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning [Oral Presentation]. International Society of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference, Virtual.
- Johnston, S.L., & Lee, C. (2024). Examining the foundation: Considering scaffolding soft skills from entry to graduation in an undergraduate business program. Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 15(1).
- Lee, C., & Johnston, S. L. (2023). Navigating capability scaffolding along the management foundation in a Bachelor of Business Administration Program. Work in Progress accepted for inclusion in the Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada – Management Education (Vol. 44).
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We are situated in an area the Blackfoot tribes traditionally called Moh’kinsstis, where the Bow River meets the Elbow River. We now call it the city of Calgary, which is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3.